How to Succeed in a PR Agency


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Learning how to be successful in a public relations (PR) agency is a stressful on-the-job, sink-or-swim, immersive experience. While other texts teach PR theory and practice, no other book guides early to mid-career PR professionals through the day-to-day life of working in an agency and the skills required to excel and build a career. This text demystifies the PR agency experience with foundational information to simplify and clarify agency life. Authors Kristin Johnson and Shalon Roth, who each grew successful careers in PR agencies, share secrets that no one will teach in a class or a seminar. This is real talk about real life in an agency – punctuated by anecdotes from leaders in the industry. This is a must-read for communications students and PR professionals looking to grow their career and become indispensable to teams and clients.




Start Your Own Public Relations Business


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The explosion of media opportunities and the rapidly changing communications landscape have served as key drivers for the public relations industry, creating huge opportunities for communications and PR specialists like you! Coaching you all the way, the experts at Entrepreneur show you how to parlay your PR experience into a successful new business. Our experts take you step by step from building the business foundation to managing day-to-day operations. Learn how to set up your firm, choose your market niche, prospect and sign clients, build media relationships, set fees, and more! Plus, gain priceless insight, tips, and techniques from practicing entrepreneurs and industry experts! Learn how to: • Set up your own PR firm • Choose your market niche • Win over, sign, and keep clients • Build strong, well-planned campaigns using the latest tools of the trade • Develop prosperous relationships and partnerships • Boost profits by expanding your business • And more Go from public relations pro to CEO! Start your own public relations firm today!




Managing a Public Relations Firm for Growth and Profit


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A complete guide, Managing a Public Relations Firm for Growth and Profit describes in detail how to manage and market a public relations firm successfully. The only book of its kind on the market, this volume is bursting with tips, instructions, philosophies, theories, and guidance, all to help you steer your firms to success. It demonstrates how to market, promote, and sell a firm to attract, win, and hold the right clientele. You will learn how to manage a new or existing firm so it is productive and profitable and has a long-range future. Information in the book is based on Author A. C. Croft's extensive experience in the field, including ten years as a consultant to PR firm principals and more than 25 years as employee or principal of three medium-sized, successful PR agencies.Croft begins each chapter with a brief profile of a seasoned and successful PR firm principal from a mid-sized firm. These professionals tell of their successes and also relate early mistakes that you would do well to avoid. Chapters are grouped into two main sections, "Marketing Your Firm for Growth" and "Managing Your Firm for Profit," and discuss pertinent topics such as: keys to new business success management strategies for success communicating to prospects installing efficient systems and procedures managing staff productivity managing profitability client budgeting recruiting, training, and retaining staff crisis planning Covering everything from billing practices and self-promotion to the use of computers and student interns, Managing a Public Relations Firm for Growth and Profit is one guide you are sure to refer to again and again for practical advice. It is must-reading for owners of small and medium-sized PR firms; senior managers of small, medium, and national firms who wish to expand their management knowledge and ability or who are considering starting their own firm; lower-level staff members who want to increase their knowledge of agency management; and university public relations professors who would like to include a primer on PR firm management in their classes.




The PR Agency Handbook


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Providing a practical and concise introduction to agency life, this text gives an insight into the day-to-day operations of a professional PR firm and offers best practice for creating a successful PR career.




Making It in Public Relations


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Mogel describes everything from the basics of vocational guidance, for those wanting to break into the public relations industry, to how different strategies have sparked the growth and enhancement of the industry in various corporate and industrial fields.




Power Public Relations


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Public relations is in the White House and the boardroom. It's creating tomorrow's stars on Hollywood sets and it's shaping the careers of tomorrow's leaders. It's moving new ideas out of the workshops of entrepreneurs and onto the Internet. Public relations is everywhere. Leonard Saffir has spent a lifetime affecting the ways we view our corporations, our politicians, our heroes, and the host of products and services we buy and use every day. In "Power Public Relations," he reveals the dynamic, powerful discipline that's successfully being used to influence thinking and shape public reaction. Complete with hands-on advice on working with the media, capturing public interest, and building and evaluating a successful public relations program, "Power Public Relations" promises to reveal new opportunities for anyone who understands the new PR and puts it to work. Praise for the Previous Edition of Power Public Relations "No professional should be without this book. It carries how-to advice and a view of the future that must be read by all." -- Robert L. Dilenschneider Principal, The Dilenschneider Group "In candidly sharing his experiences, Len Saffir easily rates an E for excellence. This book is enlightening, educational, and enjoyable!" -- Richard Weiner Public Relations Consultant




Develop Your PR Skills


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Develop Your PR Skills is a simple, straightforward guide to maximising your company's potential through effective PR. It will help the reader to gain a quick understanding of the concepts and principles and learn how to use them in actual business scenarios. It covers strategic public relations, public relations and the internet, working with the media, how to deal with different stakeholders and customers, dealing with a crisis, using internal communications, using research to get a competitive edge, evaluating the success of your PR, and ethics and sustainability. Direct and to the point, each chapter is concise, can stand alone and ends with a summary of key points. Readers are also be pointed towards key websites and reading materials.




Pr Related


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PR Related describes in full detail how to successfully start and build a public relations firm. This one-of-a-kind book is bursting with creative tips, instructions, theories and guidance, all to help you steer your firm toward success. It demonstrates how to properly start, market, and promote your firm so that it can attract, win, and secure the right clientele. You will learn how to manage a new or existing firm so that it is productive and profitable and has a strong future.




The Little Book of Big PR


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Whether you’re an established company or a cost-conscious start-up, this helpful guide tells you all you need to know to be able to use public relations effectively as a business-building tool. As an entrepreneur, you need every helpful tool you can get your hands on to build your business. And if you know the tricks of the trade, perhaps nothing can gain more attention for your small business and build your company’s credibility than a good, old-fashioned public-relations campaign. Drawing on the expertise gained during her long career in public relations, Jennefer Witter shares simple, smart, and budget-friendly methods for getting your business noticed, including what she calls the seven key elements of public relations: Self-branding Media relations Social Media Networking Speaking engagements Cause-related marketing Selecting a PR agency Complete with real-world case studies and sample content (such as media pitches) to use as-is or to modify to fit your own specific needs, The Little Book of Big PR will provide you with the expert guidance all entrepreneurs need to grow their business to new, attention-getting heights.




Public Relations Business


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Campaign for Your Success! The explosion of media opportunities and the rapidly changing communications landscape have served as key drivers for the public relations industry, creating huge opportunities for communications and PR specialists like you! Coaching you all the way, the experts at Entrepreneur show you how to parlay your PR experience into a successful new business. Our experts take you step by step from building the business foundation to managing day-to-day operations. Learn how to set up your firm, choose your market niche, prospect and sign clients, build media relationships, set fees, and more! Plus, gain priceless insight, tips, and techniques from practicing entrepreneurs and industry experts! Learn how to: Set up your own PR firm Choose your market niche Win over, sign, and keep clients Build strong, well-planned campaigns using the latest tools of the trade Develop prosperous relationships and partnerships Boost profits by expanding your business And more Go from public relations pro to CEO! Start your own public relations firm today! The First Three Years In addition to industry specific information, you’ll also tap into Entrepreneur’s more than 30 years of small business expertise via the 2nd section of the guide - Start Your Own Business. SYOB offers critical startup essentials and a current, comprehensive view of what it takes to survive the crucial first three years, giving your exactly what you need to survive and succeed. Plus, you’ll get advice and insight from experts and practicing entrepreneurs, all offering common-sense approaches and solutions to a wide range of challenges. • Pin point your target market • Uncover creative financing for startup and growth • Use online resources to streamline your business plan • Learn the secrets of successful marketing • Discover digital and social media tools and how to use them • Take advantage of hundreds of resources • Receive vital forms, worksheets and checklists • From startup to retirement, millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners have trusted Entrepreneur to point them in the right direction. We’ll teach you the secrets of the winners, and give you exactly what you need to lay the groundwork for success. BONUS: Entrepreneur’s Startup Resource Kit! Every small business is unique. Therefore, it’s essential to have tools that are customizable depending on your business’s needs. That’s why with Entrepreneur is also offering you access to our Startup Resource Kit. Get instant access to thousands of business letters, sales letters, sample documents and more – all at your fingertips! You’ll find the following: The Small Business Legal Toolkit When your business dreams go from idea to reality, you’re suddenly faced with laws and regulations governing nearly every move you make. Learn how to stay in compliance and protect your business from legal action. In this essential toolkit, you’ll get answers to the “how do I get started?” questions every business owner faces along with a thorough understanding of the legal and tax requirements of your business. Sample Business Letters 1000+ customizable business letters covering each type of written business communication you’re likely to encounter as you communicate with customers, suppliers, employees, and others. Plus a complete guide to business communication that covers every question you may have about developing your own business communication style. Sample Sales Letters The experts at Entrepreneur have compliled more than 1000 of the most effective sales letters covering introductions, prospecting, setting up appointments, cover letters, proposal letters, the all-important follow-up letter and letters covering all aspects of sales operations to help you make the sale, generate new customers and huge profits.